Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne holds a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on June 17, 2025. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
A joint investigation report by privacy commissioners in Canada says that OpenAI violated Canadian privacy laws in the way it collected and used personal information to train its ChatGPT artificial intelligence system.
The investigation examined how ChatGPT was developed and found that it was trained using massive volumes of data scraped from publicly accessible websites, including personal information belonging to Canadians.
